How To Throw A Halloween Party On A Budget

Even if your house isn’t haunted, you can throw a memorable Halloween party this year. Who says a great party has to be expensive? There’s so much you can do with inexpensive accessories, there’s no reason to break the bank to have a fun party.

Depending on who your crowd will be, there are great activities for both the kids and the adults. Kids love to do all the traditional Halloween party things. They can bob for apples or paint their own miniature sized pumpkin. You can set up an area with color-safe paint, inexpensive paint brushes, cups of water, and newspaper for them to paint on top of. A Halloween costume contest works well for both the kids and the adults. You can give a prize for the best in each category. Play Halloween man hunt! This is great for the older kids at the party. One person hides and the others have to seek that person in the dark with a flashlight, only you have a few people dressed up in scary costumes whose job it is to jump out and scare everyone.

Bloody Mary’s are the ideal Halloween beverage for the grown-ups, because they already look bloody, but you can easily make any drink red with the addition of a few drops of red food coloring. Plop some rubber eye balls in your ice cube trays for drinks that look back at your guests.

Halloween Desserts: Nothing could be easier than serving up some spooky cupcakes. Frost your cupcakes in orange icing and use candy corns for the eyes, nose and mouth. Add some plastic spiders to cupcakes with spider webs drawn on them. Cut wafter cookies in half and stick them into the top of the cupcakes to represent graves. Write RIP on the cookies. Have the kids decorate their own caramel apples. Prepare the washed apples by placing popsicle sticks into them. Melt the caramel and keep it in a small crock pot or fondue pot. Place small bowls of treats to dip the apples in around: mini chocolate chips, sprinkles or nuts.

Halloween Decorations: There are all kinds of plastic toys at the dollar store to use in your party decorations. Place votives on the window sill of each window for an eerie light. Change some of your regular light bulbs to black bulbs for a purple glow. Outside the house, use bales of hay on the lawn and place mums and pumpkins all around it. Corn husks can be rapped around the columns outside your door. Cotton can be stretched into an effective spider web. Don’t forget to throw some plastic spiders in it, too. And, you just have to have spooky organ music. Get a cd and plug it in by an open window so the music can be heard outside.

Naturally, you don’t want to forget to wear a great Halloween costume for the occasion.

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